When Packaging Is Infused with an 'Intelligent Soul', a New Blue Ocean Is Being Tapped

What Is Smart Packaging?

As early as 1992, at the "Smart Packaging" conference held in London, experts gave a definition of smart packaging: it refers to an integrated component or an inherent characteristic (element) in a package, a product or a product-package combination, through which functional components meeting specific requirements are endowed to the functions of the product packaging, or embodied in the use of the product itself.

Current Market Status of Smart Packaging

Smart packaging has already found a place in the market and can be applied in almost all product application fields, including electronics, food, beverages, pharmaceuticals and household goods. Smart packaging is increasingly becoming an extension of product functions and a carrier integrating various innovative technical means, and the wave of high and new technologies is pushing packaging to a higher level of development.

Future Forecast for Smart Packaging

In the early days, smart packaging technologies were generally used only in packaging for high-end goods and luxury items, but now, as the cost of technologies such as NFC and printed electronics declines, smart packaging technologies will be applied more and more to lower-priced products. It can be predicted that in the coming years, smart labels will be used more and more widely on everyday consumer goods. In the future, smart

packaging will eventually be everywhere.

Will Smart Packaging Be the Next Market Hotspot?

The development of smart packaging cannot be separated from the coordinated development of technologies in multiple fields, especially the development of printed electronics. It can be foreseen that with the arrival of the IoT era and the upgrading of social consumption, it is inevitable that some fields will upgrade from traditional packaging to smart packaging. Whether it is IoT smart packaging or functional smart packaging, there is enormous room for imagination and a vast potential market.

, as a provider of overall solutions for unmanned smart packaging factories, is committed to building unmanned smart packaging factories. Zhongke Tiangong has been increasing its investment of manpower and resources in the development of smart packaging technologies, and keeps pace with China's current transition from industrialization to informatization, focusing on several aspects such as tracking new trends in smart technology, promoting mature technologies and reducing costs.

Looking at the development trend of the smart packaging industry, both end-user demand and industry-side demand provide a huge market for smart packaging. Smart packaging will become the core driving force for the development and industrial upgrading of the printing and packaging industry, and it is also the technological high ground that leading printing and packaging companies must compete for!

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-350092.html